This article explores the history of words and terms that turned 100 years old in 2025, highlighting inventions and cultural shifts. It examines familiar brands like Kleenex and Wurlitzer, tracing their origins and evolution, while also delving into lesser-known terms like zipper, surrealism, and slumber party. The article celebrates the ingenuity and creativity of the 1920s, showcasing the birth of new ideas and their lasting impact.
Brands are easier to pinpoint. Names such as Kleenex and Wurlitzer, trademarks filed on fixed dates, with no hint of either before arrival. Better than that, both products proved endearing, one serving our nasal organ, the other an organ serving the cinema. Over time, those capital letters fluctuated as both brands flirted with word-hood later in the century.
Away from patents, the exactitude only loosens. The moment I declare surrealism is 100 in the year coming, some art historian will exhume an earlier Magritte of a chocolate unicycle, from 1923, say, demanding to know how else the image could be classified? Slumber party is another alleged centenarian. Happy birthday, I say, knowing this risks an irate email, sent by the great-grandson of Helen Kafoops who had her entire Girl Guide pack sleep over to celebrate Armistice Day.
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